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A Fiddling Twist to the Bach Cello Suites
No rule book prohibits someone from playing music on an instrument for which it wasn’t originally written.
February 10, 2020
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Because we are living in times of overwhelming, and daily, and sometimes unimaginable loss; because we are living in times when the extinction of species and the loss of certain ways of living are considered inevitable, and certain lives “ungrievable,” … Continued
February 10, 2020
MIT Department Of Architecture Announces Its Spring 2020 Public Programs
The MIT Department of Architecture has announced its spring 2020 public program starting from February 10 with a film screening of Jill Magid’s The Proposal, followed by a discussion with Caroline A. Jones, Timothy Hyde, and Ana Miljački.
February 10, 2020
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Dancing through Bach’s sublime Cello Suites, on the violin
Bach’s Six Cello Suites are the beating, deep-souled heart of the cello repertoire.
February 10, 2020
https://www.broadwayworld.com/
Sundance Institute Has Announced Seven Fellows for Sundance Institute Artist Residency at Ucross
Sundance Institute, a nonprofit organization that provides and preserves the space for independent artists in film, theatre, and media to create and thrive, and Ucross, a prestigious artist residency program and creative laboratory for the arts, and have announced seven … Continued
February 6, 2020
http://www.artnet.com
Christine Sun Kim, the Transgressive Deaf Artist, Will Sign the National Anthem Alongside Demi Lovato During the Super Bowl
In an interview, Kim explains why she accepted the opportunity to perform during one of America’s most-watched events and what it means to the Deaf community.
January 28, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Violinist Johnny Gandelsman finds ‘infinite possibilities’ in Bach’s cello suites
January 2015. The violinist Johnny Gandelsman — Moscow-born, New York-based, and a member of such restlessly curious groups as the Silk Road Ensemble and the string quartet Brooklyn Rider — is on the small stage of MIT’s Killian Hall.
January 24, 2020
https://mommypoppins.com/
20 Fun Things To Do in Boston with Teens
Inspire your science-loving teens with a visit to the MIT Museum.
January 24, 2020
https://www.mvtimes.com/
Chilmark: Gray-day blahs
If you happen to be in Cambridge, you may want to check out the Herreshoff Legacy exhibit at the MIT Museum, up through May 1, 2021.
January 22, 2020
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/
How Polaroid pioneered the instant photography revolution
The Polaroid camera bypassed the entire process of film development, thus providing photographers an immediate look at their work. Now, the museum at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is showcasing the intersection of technology and art.
January 21, 2020
https://www.bostonglobe.com
Boston’s best classical music events for the busy winter season
Violinist Johnny Gandelsman, one-fourth of the Brooklyn Rider Quartet, returns to Boston with his latest Bach project, the complete Cello Suites transcribed for violin.
January 17, 2020
http://www.artnews.com/
Christopher Wood and Eric Michaud on Art History’s Disciplinary Crisis
“A discipline enters into a state of self-consciousness, writes its own history, and theorizes its practices when something is unresolved,” writes New York University art historian Christopher S. Wood, a preeminent scholar of the German Renaissance, in his new book, … Continued
January 15, 2020
Kennedy & Violich to Update the Hayden Library at MIT
The Hayden Library at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is undergoing an interior renovation at the hand of Kennedy & Violich Architecture (KVA).
January 10, 2020
https://www.wnyc.org/
David Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ Reimagined for Cello
Cellist Maya Beiser and composer Evan Ziporyn join us to discuss the new album, Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar, which comes out today, January 10.
January 10, 2020
https://eugeneweekly.com/
Women’s Music
Hear the sounds of ancient and modern female composers in January
January 9, 2020
https://www.billboard.com/
Maya Beiser Reimagines Bowie’s ‘Blackstar’ As Gorgeous Cello Piece: Premiere
Like so many others, Maya Beiser was “obsessed” with David Bowie’s final album, Blackstar, when it came out in January 2016.
January 9, 2020
http://www.archpaper.com/
Kennedy & Violich Architecture are redeveloping the interior of MIT’s Hayden Library
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Hayden Library in Cambridge, Massachusetts, is about to receive a significant interior renovation.
January 9, 2020
https://www.noozhawk.com/
UCSB Faculty to Perform Music by Composer Elena Ruehr
UCSB Music faculty members will present works by composer Elena Ruehr, including two world premieres, 7:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 24, in Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall.
January 8, 2020
https://www.ai-ap.com/
Books: How Harold Edgerton Saw the Unseen
Sixty-three years ago, on the evening of Jan. 10, 1957, Harold Edgerton set a 4,000-volt electronic flash of his own design to the right of a small, shallow pool of milk in his “Strobe Lab” at the Massachusetts Institute of … Continued
January 8, 2020
http://www.wsj.com
‘Bowie Cello Symphonic: Blackstar’ by Maya Beiser Review: Tribute to a Rock Icon
The cellist reworks and expands David Bowie’s final album.
January 7, 2020
https://artery.wbur.org
16 Art Exhibits Worth Leaving The House For This Winter
From Tschabalala Self’s colorful recreations of the black female form at the ICA to the opening of the MAAM, Boston’s newest contemporary art museum, here are a few winter exhibits that have me looking on the bright side.
January 6, 2020
http://www.artforum.com
MIT LIST VISUAL ARTS CENTER APPOINTS NATALIE BELL CURATOR
The MIT List Visual Arts Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts, announced today that Natalie Bell has been named its next curator of exhibitions.
January 6, 2020
http://www.artnews.com/
MIT Art Center Hires Natalie Bell, Rising New York Curator, to Oversee Exhibitions Program
After its last curator, Henriette Huldisch, departed to take a top position at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the MIT List Visual Arts Center, a closely watched art space in Cambridge, Massachusetts, has picked a significant figure in New York to fill … Continued
January 6, 2020
http://www.artnews.com/
The Year in Screens: The Defining Moving-Image and Digital Works of 2019
Gretchen Bender and Ericka Beckman were concerned with the representation of women in mass media, and both produced work with a cunning sense for the spectacular editing style of music videos, reality TV, and Hollywood filmmaking.
December 25, 2019
http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/
IN “BANAL PRESENTS,” THREE BLACK ARTISTS INTERVENE IN VAST SOCIAL INSTITUTIONS, FROM THE PRISON SYSTEM TO EDUCATION
“Banal Presents” was the final installment in a trilogy of exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art curated by Meg Onli and titled Colored People Time, after a black expression that frames a supposed lack of punctuality on the part … Continued
December 19, 2019